589 nm sum-frequency generation laser for the LGS/AO of Subaru Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6272 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Saito, Yoshihiko ^a   Hayano, Yutaka ^a   Saito, Norihito ^b   Akagawa, Kazuyuki ^c   Takazawa, Akira ^c   Kato, Mayumi ^c   Ito, Meguru ^a,d   Colley, Stephen ^a   Dinkins, Mattew ^a   Eldred, Michael ^a   Golota, Taras ^a   Guyon, Olivier ^a   Hattori, Masayuki ^a   Oya, Shin ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a   Takami, Hideki ^a   Iye, Masanori ^a,e   Wada, Satoshi ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Megaopto Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Laser Guide Star; Sodium Laser

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTALS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

LASER GUIDE STAR (LGS); MODE LOCKED PULSES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SODIUM LASERS;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 33749320121     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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